iPad 2 will launch on April 2nd or 9th according to rumor

A new rumor suggests that Apple’s second-generation iPad will be released in the U.S. in early April. German Apple enthusiast blog MacNotes.de claims to have well-sourced information that points to an iPad 2 launch in the U.S. on either Saturday, April 2nd or Saturday, April 9th. The next-generation iPad will be a U.S. exclusive for several months before launching internationally in July, according to the report. Apple’s first iPad followed a similar pattern, launching only in the U.S. at first and then becoming available in additional markets later on. The blog also states that Apple will sell the new iPad directly for six months before retail partners like Walmart and Best Buy offer the tablet. Finally, the report’s source claims that the new iPad will feature a Retina Display, a USB port and dual cameras, all of which are in line with previous rumors.

Hey where are you for the every two day rumor of some generic htc or Samsung android phone they’ve already released 6 different variations of in less than a year? Trolling Apple articles? Yeah. I see that.

Monique

I just hope it’s being released in March and not April…I need some entertainment for my long flight to Hawaii….

Anonymous

How about a book? Those things have lots of read-only capacity, and definitely has a display sharper than “retina”. It even works best in sunlight.

Anonymous

Just another rumor….

Anonymous

thats most likely true. ;)

Bogat33

I’m probably going to pick up the iPad 2, I’m going to Florida and I need to be entertained on the flight. However I am getting the Verizon iPhone in March. I could always get the first generation iPad for a good price.

http://hurmoth.com/ Hurmoth

When they stated USB port, they lost all credibility. I simply don’t buy that. Sure, Apple could surprise us, but I don’t see it though.

Anonymous

Agreed, also I don’t believe the Retina display will be on the iPad2, I just don’t see them being able to support that type of display resolution with a good price and battery life.

I sure do hope that the rumor about US elusive for the first 4 months is untrue.

http://hurmoth.com/ Hurmoth

Retina Display is just a marketing term based on the assertion that a display of approximately 300 ppi at a distance of 12 inches (305 mm) from one’s eye is the maximum amount of detail that the human retina can process. As long as the screen is still processable by the retina at 12 inches, I’d imagine they’d still use the marketing term.

Manbearpig

A “Retina Display” for the iPhone 4 is twice the resolution of the iPhone 3GS, or 4 times the pixels. This made conversion very simple for all of the apps out there.

It is totally unfeasible that the iPad 2 will have 4 times the pixels of the iPad. If it did it would have more pixels than a 27 inch Cinema display!

Is it possible that Apple will release a slightly higher pixel density in iPad 2? I doubt it, as it would require developers to make a complete overhaul of every app. It’s easy to scale 2x (each old pixel is now 4 pixels) but it’s very complicated to scale 1.3x or 1.6x or whatever. You’d really need to rewrite the whole app. It’s not like a PC where you can easily have different size monitors, the iPad apps are designed around the size of the display and the way that your hand interacts with that exact size.

I’m guessing they’ll stay with the current resolution for a few years until they are able to make the 2x leap.

Anonymous

Stop calling it a Retina Display! Unless Apple wants to bastardize their own marketing, the RD (Retina Display/Reality Distortion, take your pick) refers to a very high DPI display (I don’t know the exact figures). If that same DPI were to be applied to the iPad display, it would be a huge monitor busting resolution that is just not possible. Rather, just call it what it is, and that is most likely a higher resolution, although this would end up adding a fourth resolution to the iOS product line resulting in FRA-GMEN-TA-TION.

Fullhouse131

You all need to realize how ridiculous a “Retina Display” resolution would have to be on a 9.7″ display you would need to have a resolution of 2304 x 1728 which is about 297 ppi which is about 3 ppi short Uncle Steve’s sweet spot of 300 ppi and that still falls short of the iPhone 4’s 326 ppi. No one is going to create a display in this size to come even close to 300 ppi.

http://twitter.com/mattsinopoli mattsinopoli

Art and text can always be scaled down with no loss of quality. As long as developers design for the highest resolution things should look fine across all iDevices.

Anonymous

No, that will make a total of two resolutions on the iPad line, and one is a year old product. All iOS devices within 2 years old will be running 4.3 soon–that’s hardly fragmentation!

When the word fragmentation is used about Android, it’s to describe HUNDREDS of devices with differing hardware that are released around the same time, yet still running different versions of the OS. And devices as recent as a couple months may never get updated, period. That’s fragmentation.

Anonymous

Read the comment again. It’s 4 resolutions across all iOS devices. The original iPhone/iPod Touch resolution, the “Retina Display”, the current iPad resolution and a new iPad resolution, making it 4.

Goofan (aka Apple Hater)

Folks, there will be NO iPad 2! Apple WILL throw in the towel and go under by the end of this year under the pressure of Google. No one, and I mean NO ONE, not even God can beat Google! Google FTW!

Marlene

I hate to correct you, but the US iPad lauch took place on April 3rd, on a Saturday.

http://www.bgr.com Zach Epstein

Fixed, thanks!

Goofan (aka Apple Hater)

This is like the iPhone on Verizon rumor. Like the iPhone on Verizon, iPad 2 and it’s features won’t happen. People are still talking and thinking Verizon will launch an iPhone. Us Goofans (aka Apple Haters) know that will never ever happen!

Anonymous

So instead of finding rumors on what Sprint may announce on the 7th, instead this site puts more energy into what Apple may or may not being for the umpteeth time in a 5 day Span….

Anonymous

Hey guys, the blogs name has changed!

BoyGeniusRumors

Bringit

or changed to –

bunch of big baby whiners who will take the time to post in threads they claim to not care about.

Jayhammy

Wow. Look at the people in that picture. The cult of Jobs is alive and well. One would think a movie star had just appeared. Scary!

Anonymous

AppleGeniusReport strikes again

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GP2WYAHXS6CRUREISWBGPUSUGE Michael

You just put apple and genius next to each other. Talk about a paradox.

Anonymous

There will be no retina display. Get serious.

Anonymous

Well we do know that the display will completely crush anything else out there. Will it be 4X resolution? Probably not.

Apple is looking to keep the same prices and raise the specs.

No competitor will be able to match Apple on price, or even come close.

Anonymous

How do “we” know this. I think the resolution will be exactly the same. If you understand anything about PC’s you should realize the amount of processing power it takes to run a program as 2x the resolution. The iphone 4 already has trouble running things at 940xwhatever, how do you think it would do at 1800x whatever. CHOKE.

QNX Please

BGR you have become the Nation Enquirer of tech blogs. Stop reporting rumors and report NEWS, tell us when you find out the official date.

Anonymous

As much as I respect the engineering and quality of Apple’s products (they are made well, and they function well), the ridiculousness of this “Upgrade very year” thing just blows me away.

I understand that all of us interested in Tech are perpetually keeping up with the Jones’, but the way in which Apple does it has you keeping up with the Jones’ not only with multiple devices but ever increasingly expensive devices.

So now Apple fans are spending another $1-200 every year for the next Apple phone that meagerly updates its features, in addition to the $500-1000 for another iPad which meagerly updates its features.

It’s just getting obscene.

StevenGlansburg

More obscene than the people who on this very tech blog get the newest android phone every month?

Anonymous

You mean the Android phones given to them by the company for free?

Or the Android phones used for testing and review purposes?

Those same phones?

Bringit

You are joking, right?

First off – unlike Android for example – Apple has one smartphone, the iPhone. Yes it comes out with an annual model.

Android (for example, could say the same about blackberry) has come out with multiple (can’t even count) models. They come out almost weekly.

Anonymous

Duh.

Was that supposed to be a rebuttal, or reinforcement of my point?

Android comes out with multiple devices because multiple companies on multiple carriers are competing for your business.

That grants a large amount of choice, and more specifically, it lets consumers hold off for a device that will suit their needs for an extended period of time.

There may be 4 different phone makers all with latest and greatest tech, spread out over the course of a few months. That isn’t the case with Apple. You pay top dollar for tech, and get robbed of features that SHOULD have been in the device to begin with.

Adding a USB or periphal port and a front facing camera is not worthy of “next gen”. Not even slightly.

Bringit

Figure it out for yourself.

Anonymous

The idea that every Apple customer updates every product every year is just ridiculous. I have a four year old iMac, am almost two year old MacBook Pro and my original 2007 iPhone.

Most Apple users buy products they need them. Granted, I have only been using Apple products for 15 years so I might not know much about the typical Apple customer.

Apple opens new stores
New customers buy their first Apple product
Those customer buy another Apple product the next time they need/want a device
Rinse and Repeat

To my knowledge Apple has the lowest price Tablets, Media Players and TV boxes. I am pretty sure that is a true statement on my part.

QNX Please

Thats the genius behind Steve Jobs and the Apple marketing machine. The mindless droves that buy Apple products upgrade every year. When the iPhone 4 came out, 80% of the people buying were 3GS users, and same goes with the 3GS for the 3G, even though very little got upgraded or things were added that should have been there to begin with, multi-tasking, or copy and paste anyone…. Jobs can make cheap incremental upgrades like bringing a webcam to the iPad2, boost the processor and memory which costs nothing and sell a new one to his customers that already own an iPad. Hell I know some people that buy a new iPod every year because they came out with a new colour. People bitch about BlackBerry and slowly changing, please explain how the iPhone has changed since 2007.

Anonymous

So when Apple sells more devices this year than last year who exactly is buying the extra devices?

I mean, okay, say me and every other mindless person do by the latest idevice and Apple sells 150 Million of them this year. Last year they only sold 80 million. So us 80 million bought the latest version, who exactly bill be buying the other 70 million? Or are some of us buying an extra whatever device?

If you father ever cared about this world he would immediately punch your mother in the mouth for not swallowing you?

QNX Please

It’s well documented that 80% of sales are to previous iPhone users, the iPhone4 has not sold 150 million devices this year, stop making up numbers to justified your childish response.

Anonymous

@ QNX Please,

Your stupidity is sad. Read my post again, 150 million devices this year. Last I checked this is 2011. Nowhere did I say iPhone 4 and 150 million. What I said was 150 million idevices this year, 2011.

Sdf

i usually go to the gym once a month.

http://twitter.com/MikeCaine MikeCaine

No one is forced to upgrade every year. Most people I know skip a year.

Anonymous

If Best Buy doesn’t get the new iPad on launch day I’ll be pretty upset.

http://twitter.com/Davva360 David Moore

YAYY!! I am so glad the Verizon Iphone rumors are over. Let the ipad 2 rumors begin lol. You have to admit, Apple knows how to control the news cycle.

http://twitter.com/D4mi4n1988 Damian Wozniak

Good and bad news. It better be really amazing. Also, I hope it doesn’t have a home button like prior articles have stated

Anonymous

iPad2 should be quad core and have boot-camp for window phone 7. That would be awesome and would be ahead of the competition.

http://www.facebook.com/fupresti David LoPresti

How they hell can they pull off a 300 dpi screen at that size?

Orlysud

What size Is the new iPad and price??

http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/72CZMYZDKFC3DXPDZF5KQDWI6I geoff

it won’t have a retina display. it will have a slightly better resolution but there isn’t a chance in hell of it having retina display. you need to do math before you post bullshit like that.